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Noted SMU anthropologist Caroline Brettell joins actress Carol Burnett, musician John Legend, playwright Lynn Nottage, immunologist James Allison and other renowned leaders in various fields as a newly elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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We are happy to announce that Dr. Lynnette Arnold will be joining us for two years, beginning in July, as the Cogut Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistic Anthropology. Dr. Arnold will teach courses in linguistic anthropology and engaged scholarship, contributing to our track in the Engaged Scholars Program and working closely with the Swearer Center.
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Brown Graduate School selected 11 PhD students for the Open Graduate Education program, which provides the flexibility and resources to pursue a master’s degree in a secondary field while they earn their doctorates.
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An interdisciplinary research team of Brown undergraduates led by Assistant Professor of Anthropology Parker VanValkenburgh developed a bilingual, tablet-based app for field and laboratory use.
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Brown Graduate School

Bhawani Buswala honored

Congratulations to Bhawani Buswala on his Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award.
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Brown Graduate School

2016-17 Interdisciplinary Opportunity Awards

Derek Sheridan, Chelsea Cormier McSwiggin, and Rama Srinivasan all awarded Interdisciplinary Opportunities for 2016-17. Congratulations!
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Brown Daily Herald

Anthropology course pushes students to serve community

Irene Glasser's ANTH 1301 "Anthropology of Homelessness" class takes a two pronged approach to the issue of homeless, discussing policy during its weekly meetings, and supplementing the classroom experience with community service work in downtown Providence.
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AfAA

Congratulations to Dan Smith

The Association for Africanist Anthropology proudly announces the 2015 AfAA award winners. After reviewing many excellent books, the Elliott P Skinner Book Award Committee selected Daniel Jordan Smith’s AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria (U Chicago Press, 2014) as its top choice.
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Brown Graduate School

McKelvey Wins 2015 Wise-Susman Prize

TAPS PhD student Patrick McKelvey has won the 2015 Wise-Susman Prize of the American Studies Association for his paper “Disemploying Prosthetics.”
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News From Brown

David Kertzer wins Pulitzer

David Kertzer, former provost at Brown, has been awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for biography-autobiography.
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SIMA

Congratulations to Robert Preucel

Robert Preucel is selected as a Faculty Fellow for the Smithsonian Institution's Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology. He and another colleague are the first two faculty members in this new program.
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AIIS

Accolades for Bhrigu Singh

Bhrigu Singh receives Wenner-Gren Foundation grant for Post PhD research and his wins the Joseph W. Elder Prize for the best book of 2015 in the Indian social sciences.
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Brown Graduate School

Congratulations to interdisciplinary awards recipients

Paula Dias and Magnus Hansen for their interdisciplinary opportunity awards during 2015-16 at IBES and JCB, and welcome to Crystal Ngo who will be in residence at the Haffenreffer with an interdisciplinary opportunity award.
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The Providence Journal

Sherine Hamdy: Does America have Muslim problem?

"For the United States to live up to its ideals of equality and freedom, we must do better in valuing the lives, differences, and vulnerabilities of people of color. The first step forward is to name the problem."
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AAP

Houston receives national book award

Congratulations to Stephen Houston for being honored with 2015 PROSE national book award for art history and criticism for "The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence."
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SLACA

Faudree wins book award

Congratulations to Paja Faudree for being honored with the 2014 book award from the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association.
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Brown Graduate School

Congratulations to Bryan Moorefield

Winner of the 2014 Eric R. Wolf Prize awarded by the Society for the Anthropology of Work, for his paper titled "Exceptional Protections: Contracts, Temporality, and Mexican Guestworkers."
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Harvard University Press

New book by Andrew Scherer

"Embattled Bodies, Embattled Places War in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes," published by Harvard University Press
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University of Chicago Press

New book by Daniel Jordan Smith

"AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria," published by University of Chicago Press
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Yale University Press

New book by Stephen Houston

"The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence," published by Yale University Press
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Duke University Press

New book by Paja Faudree

"Singing for the Dead: The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico," published by Duke University Press
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Orient BlackSwan

New book by Lina Fruzzetti

"When Marriages Go Astray: Choices Made, Choices Challenged," published by Orient BlackSwan
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Professor Kertzer talks to Dave Davies of Fresh Air about his new book The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe.
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On the Media

Paja Faudree interviewed on On The Media

Professor Faudree discusses recent legislative attempts to ban the use of the Nazi word and symbols in Israel with Brooke Gladstone of On The Media.
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